Combustion Turbine Technician

About the role

The position is a great opportunity for a motivated person who has the attitude and aptitude to forge a career path in a stable industry. Armstrong has some of the leading staff in the industry and will help build a specialist’s experience and skill set.

Responsibilities

• Learn all systems necessary to effectively operate the plant during all conditions.
• Operate turbine-generators and auxiliaries to include start-up and shut-down.
• Prepare plant statistical reports, assist with the preparation of Operations and Maintenance capital budgets, maintain plant configuration drawings, databases, operation, and maintenance procedures as needed.
• Participate in the station's safety tagging and record maintenance, help to ensure that plant operations follow regulatory and environmental requirements.
• Record maintenance actions taken on appropriate logs.
• Make recommendations for improvement of plant performance and operation safety relevant to assigned area of responsibility.
• Safely operate plant equipment needed to perform essential job duties, e.g., vehicles, cranes, hoists, welding and cutting equipment, etc.
• Inspect, test, troubleshoot, service and repair, calibrate, and install pneumatic and/or electric control instruments.
• Install, maintain, and troubleshoot all mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, micro-processors, and electronic (solid state) sensing transmitting, indicating, integrating, recording, and regulating apparatus, equipment and circuitry associated with the plant.
• Develop and conduct the plant's predictive maintenance program, administer and maintain plant maintenance and inventory control; conduct plant performance evaluations and collect associated data.
• Aids in the development and administration of specified packages for the initial and continual training of other plant's Combustion Turbine Technicians upon request.
• Handles related electrical maintenance duties to include the wiring and disconnection of motors, replacement of thermocouples and fuses.
• Installs, tests, removes and replaces motors, generators, rotating equipment, rectifiers, batteries, transformers, regulators, reactors, circuit breakers, disconnecting switches, instruments, control relays, communication equipment, lightning arrestors and other auxiliary equipment with control apparatus in the generating station and associated substation.
• Maintains high standards of safety.
• Cooperates and participates as a team member to accomplish plant goals and objectives.
• Complies with all IPSC policies and procedures.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Experience with electric generating equipment and operations, to include the repair and maintenance of turbine generators is desired although not mandatory.
• Valid driver's license and must be insurable by company's vehicle insurance carrier.

Qualifications

• Must be motivated to learn new skills both self-taught and under instruction.
• Has the ability and desire to solve complex problems.
• Good oral and written communication skills are essential.
• Must possess a high degree of initiative and judgment.
• Familiarity with computer-based productivity tools relevant to the plant, e.g., Microsoft software products, databases for work orders (CMMS), maintenance logs, and procurement systems, etc.
• Ability to respond to plant emergencies/call-ins (day or night).
• Ability to work rotating shifts involving weekends, holidays, backshifts, and overtime as applicable.

Skills

• Ability to hear and understand audible alarms, detect changes in noise levels of equipment.
• Ability to frequently stand; walk; balance, sit; climb (ladders, stairs, ramps, catwalks, stacks and the like as required); stoop; squat; crouch; crawl; kneel; reach; grasp; push; pull; lift (min. 50lbs); feel; talk and hear.
• Ability to perform repetitive motions as required.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Rotating shifts involving weekends, holidays, backshifts, and overtime as applicable.